Writing
Understanding Psychedelics
Shamans, chemists, and the uneasy relationship between direct experience and scientific explanation. What psychedelic states might reveal about the filters through which we ordinarily see the world.
Engineering the Mind
Knowing the movements isn’t the same as understanding the art. The same holds for thought: how habit shapes perception, what paradox can teach, and why practice changes the person doing it.
Mind and Fascia
What was Chu Shong Tin trying to teach his students to feel? Nim Lik, fascia, and the gap between copying a movement and developing the internal state that makes it work.